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...Thanksgiving? The U.S. now had five divisions (or parts of divisions) in Korea-the and, 24th and 25th Infantry, the ist Cavalry, the 1st Marine-plus the 5th RCT (regimental combat team) from Hawaii, plus unidentified reinforcements which went into the line last week. The South Koreans had five divisions more on the line. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed that thousands of marines were en route from the U.S. The first ground troops from other United Nations were also en route...
...reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described as hanging on "by their toenails"-but they did hang...
Second Threat. There were other danger spots along the front. The week's fiercest battle developed near Changnyong, where the Communists put their whole 4th Division across the Naktong River. Early last week Major General John Church's war-weary 24th Infantry Division had attacked the Red bulge, but in the face of withering enemy artillery fire the 24th recoiled. To bolster them General Walton Walker pulled the U.S. 1st Marine Brigade back from its precarious advanced position near Chinju on the southern front (where their chief objective of breaking up the Reds' south-coast drive toward...
Corporal Robert Davis, a big, serious-faced Negro BAR man from the 24th Infantry Regiment, and his buddy, Jimmy Wright, spent most of last week in a foxhole on a hilltop near Masan. They didn't remember all of what had happened to them, but they did remember some things. Davis told TIME Correspondent Jim Bell about them...
...week's end, they had put three regiments-a full division-across at Changnyong, roadblocked a secondary supply route and threatened the rail-and-road line from Taegu to Pusan. This week the brave, battered 24th Division, which had been fighting steadily for six weeks, moved to the counterattack behind hard-hitting Pershing tanks. The division commander, Major General John H. Church,* said he intended to "drive the enemy back across the river or destroy him on this side." But it was not certain that John Church and his men had enough tomatoes for that...